St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-10
THE SEWER TROUBLE.
Aid. McArdle and Cloutier Have a
Word to Say.

AID. McArdle ana Cioutler Have q
Word to Say.
T. r. Lawler has kicked up small
sized row again over the sewer matter,
but nothing has been developed. One
paper which handled the affair has so
wildly misquoted an alderman and
given such tortured quotations from
another that they have taken the trOu-
BILE to be set right. Aid. William Nc
Ardle, of the Third ward, is the first.
He said he made none of the statements
credited to him by an evening paper but
one, and that one was .misquoted.
what l said," was his remark,
was that Cloutier signed the majority
report with two Republicans, without
having investigated the matter. The
other stuff credited to me / never said.
have no doubt and had none that a
full investigation would have exon
Grated Rinker, and thought it should
have been made. Nothing that | said
could have been twisted into anything
like what was reported in an evening
paper" Aid. Cloutier also makes a
statement, and makes it red hot. He
said:
In an obscure and sensational sheet there
appeared yesterday an alleged interview with
one Thomas Lawler rejecting upon my in
tegrity as a member of the committee on
sewers. In said interview Lawler is reported
to have said, Il don't mean to say that he
(Cloutier) has received money direct from
City Engineer Rinker or any other of the
sewer committee, but do know that lots of
jobs are thrown by them in his way and a
large amount of money falls in his pockets,
much TO the disadvantage of the city treas
ury." L deny in the most emphatic manner
that there is particle of truth in LAWYERS
statement, and 1 hereby publicly call
upon him for proof of his malicious
allegations. Some time ago this same
LAWYER preferred charges against City En-
gineer Rinker, and the council referred the
matter to the committee on sewers. / signed
the majority report with Messrs. Voght and j.
L. johnson, two of the Republican aldermen,
declaring we found nothing in the charges
to justify an investigation. My actions
seems to have exasperated the blatant Law
Ter beyond measure, for at the Algonquin
club meeting last Tuesday evening he de-
nounced me as "boodler' in the presence
of several persons, including one OsgOodby,
the alleged proprietor of the aforesaid vitu-
erative sheet. then and there challenged
him to proof, but he refused to furnish any.
Next day Osgoodby called at my Office and
asked me to take 500 worth of stock in his
newspaper concern. declined to do so !; and
the day following he published the interview
with Lawler, which is tissue of
malicious falsehood from beginning to end.
If Lawler and Osgoodby were pecuniarily re-
sponsible for the publication of such SANDER
would Immediately take legal steps to pros
ecute them both; but unfortunately they are
impecunious slanderers, and l shall at pres
ent content myself with entering denial
against each and every allegation made by
Lawler, whether orally or in the press, and
again call upon him to produce proof in sup
port of his malicious charges, or forever after
hold his tongue in silence. Every well-in-
formed citizen is aware that the committee
on sewers, of which am member, has not
the handling of 1 cent Of the public funds,
and that the construction of sewers is en-
tirely under the supervision of the engineer
ing Department.